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Faculty of the Kroc School of Peace and Justice Visit South Korea – 2023
When you want to understand a global conflict, experience it with your body. I don’t mean that you need to get shot, but at least breathe in the air and talk to the people living it out. That’s why, the day after graduation, faculty of Kroc School of Peace Studies...
When Executives Inherit Dark Histories | London School of Economics Business Review
Entrepreneurship is a forward-looking venture. Executives sort through overwhelming amounts of data as different departments circle through with reports, graphs, and projections. Corporate leaders must make sense of these numbers, identify leaks, and stop them....
If You Want Revenge for 9/11, Don’t Look to the Kids Who Lost A Parent
One of the best parts of graduating from a school of Conflict Resolution is that incredible groups pass through. Today, I had the wonderful fortune of participating in a program sponsored by Tuesday's Children, an organization designed to support kids who lost a...
Writers Who Risk It All
Incidentally- I am taking new writing clients. My coaching service called Finish & Flourish helps you finish your dissertation, thesis, book and/or article. Getting students to write, getting ourselves to write can be harder than sitting down to do our taxes....
10 Things Citizens Deserve to Know About Lobbying
To say I understand my life would be a total farce. Thursday morning, I found myself at Le Comptoir des Saint Peres in Paris meeting with a colleague from SciencesPo (France's international relations school) and discussing the recent dismissal of France's Minster...
The World’s Most Contested Space Isn’t Israel, It’s the Kitchen!
When people learn my doctorate is in Conflict Resolution, many understandably ask something like, “Do you mean the conflicts between couples, within organizations, or the more like the conflict in Israel?” In a sense, they are asking do people hire me to work with...
Holocaust Survivor wisdom shared with those who lost family to terrorism
I was one of the few folks in Washington D.C. bouncing back from the holidays eager for the year to start. I was eager to get back because I was about to meet with this winter’s Common Bond participants. Common Bond Common Bond was born out of Tuesday’s Children,...
Should Trains Allow Ads from Hate Groups?
In my Approaches to Conflict class at the University of Baltimore, students must write a letter to someone in power, requesting something that matters to them. I always participate. So when, the Bay Area BART rail system allowed advertisements from a group that...